{"id":604370,"date":"2026-04-14T22:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T22:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/604370\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T22:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T22:45:10","slug":"nbcs-lead-golf-analyst-tears-into-cbs-over-sundays-rough-masters-broadcast-what-are-we-doing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/604370\/","title":{"rendered":"NBC\u2019s Lead Golf Analyst Tears into CBS Over Sunday\u2019s Rough Masters Broadcast: \u2018What Are We Doing?\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunday\u2019s final round of the Masters ended with Rory McIlroy tapping in for bogey and a historic win<\/a> at Augusta National. While McIlroy\u2019s thrilling victory was the story coming out of another wild finish at golf\u2019s most iconic tournament, CBS\u2019s final round coverage of the event was also a huge talking point because the usual top team in golf had a rough showing<\/a>. <\/p>\n

While many fans and media outlets have sounded off on those issues, now we have someone from NBC\u2019s golf team tearing into CBS, and he does seem to have a point. <\/p>\n

Kevin Kisner, who played on the PGA Tour for years and has teed it up in the Masters eight times, is now NBC\u2019s lead golf analyst and he wasn\u2019t happy with one big problem that CBS had during Sunday\u2019s final round. If you watched it on TV while also tracking the official Masters leaderboard on its stellar app or website, then you know that the broadcast was often way behind the action and relied far too much on showing shots on tape. <\/p>\n

Kisner noticed that and wasn\u2019t impressed. He said on the golf podcast for Barstool Sports<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were literally showing s— that I knew happened 10 minutes ago all day long,\u201d\u00a0Kisner said on Barstool Sports\u2019 ForePlay podcast. \u201cWhat are we doing, man? You have no commercials. Play live shots. Our production team at NBC prides themselves on playing every shot that they possibly can live \u2026 I have no idea what they\u2019re doing. Literally no idea. They\u2019re showing every shot on tape. I don\u2019t even know how the announcers call it. I don\u2019t know how Colt can act like he doesn\u2019t know what\u2019s happening when it\u2019s already happened. There were a couple of shots in the two days that were seven to 10 minutes behind. It was unbelievable, dude. I\u2019m not trying to just kill them but being in TV for 30 times and seeing what our production team does it was just fascinating to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kisner didn\u2019t stop there. <\/p>\n

\u201cSo your entire Masters coverage is a fantasy world. It\u2019s bulls—,\u201d he said. \u201cWhatever we all watch has already happened seven minutes ago. Could you imagine watching the f—— Super Bowl and being like, yea Tom Brady threw that touchdown seven minutes ago, we\u2019re going to act like it\u2019s live here so our announcers can sound really smart and we\u2019re going to sit here and he\u2019s going to throw it wide open down the middle but it actually happened seven minutes ago and everyone in the stadium\u2019s taking a piss. What are we doing, man?\u201d<\/p>\n

Here’s a snippet of NBC golf analyst Kevin Kisner’s rant against CBS and its Masters coverage on @ForePlayPod<\/a>. <\/p>\n

“What are we doing? You have no commercials. Play live shots.” pic.twitter.com\/8XgNUj6MLC<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Josh Carpenter (@JoshACarpenter) April 14, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

What makes Kisner\u2019s fiery comments so interesting is that we don\u2019t usually hear announcers from other networks ripping their competitors so open and freely like he did on the podcast. He has a point, though\u2014the amount of delay in Sunday\u2019s broadcast was odd. <\/p>\n

Jim Nantz admits that the CBS broadcast made some mistakes<\/p>\n

Jim Nantz, who has long been the lead voice of CBS\u2019 golf coverage, spoke Tuesday about Sunday\u2019s final round and admitted that there were some mistakes but that he was proud of his team. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s live television. We all make mistakes,\u201d Nantz said during an appearance on the Pat McAfee Show. \u201cI can’t speak to the difficulty and some of the decision-making, and some of the other things that people are responsible for. I just know that our crew is the best in the business.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jim Nantz talking CBS coverage of Masters final round on @PatMcAfeeShow<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“It’s live television. We all make mistakes. … I can’t speak to the difficulty and some of the decision-making, and some of the other things that people are responsible for.”
pic.twitter.com\/8Cgnk1Hsw8<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 David Rumsey (@_DavidRumsey) April 14, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

While the delays were unfortunate, CBS also had some bigger issues on Sunday.<\/p>\n

CBS completely botched Rory McIlroy\u2019s final hole<\/p>\n

As we stated on Monday<\/a>, CBS had a rough final hole of the tournament. It started with the crew losing McIIroy\u2019s difficult approach shot on 18 and ended with a bad angle on his tap-in putt that didn\u2019t allow viewers to see the ball going in the hole. They also lost Cameron Young\u2019s approach shot in 18, which happened right after McIlroy\u2019s shot from the trees on the right.<\/p>\n

CBS also didn\u2019t show Haotong Li\u2019s 10 on 13<\/p>\n

Haotong Li was playing alongside Scottie Scheffler in one of the last groups on Sunday and thanks to a number of bad shots, including a putt that rolled off the green and into the water, he finished with a 10 on the par-5 13th hole. CBS didn\u2019t show us any of that<\/a>, instead they mentioned that Scheffler had to wait while Li searched for his ball after a bad approach shot and then putted his ball into the water. That would have been fun to see on TV. <\/p>\n

The CBS golf team is usually the best in the business, but they had an off day on the biggest stage of on Sunday. Hopefully they can learn from it and get back to their usual standard next year. <\/p>\n

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